Antiphony Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 I have a hard drive with an old installation of Windows on it that I've connected as a secondary drive. I was hoping to be able to access all the files from my old account so that I could recover them. However, the old account was password protected and if I try to go to the My Documents folder from that account, it tells me 'access denied'. What can I do to get access to those folders? I can't boot off this old drive because the computer that it was in is now dead (which is why I ended putting it in this other computer in the first place.) Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 Boot from a Linux Live CD (e.g. Ubuntu or Mint) which should allow you to copy the files across from the old to the new H/D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshomaru Samma Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 I usually use Knoppix for this kind of work , it's a Linux based live CD .Here is a howto , based on an older version of Knoppix, but it should be the same, you could probably use that guide for Ubuntu and Mint as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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